FAQs

  • Generative art is made when the artist deliberately gives some amount of control to an autonomous system. My work is almost always a code-generated instance of an algorithm with an infinite, non-repeating output space.

  • Generative orders are made with a unique output of generative art, and therefore your order will not necessarily look exactly as pictured. It will be generated from the same algorithm, and represent the same idea, but it may not be the same in the specifics.

  • My ability to make orders can be limited, as everything is custom and made by myself, so I need to limit orders via price.

    However, I don’t want anyone to be priced out from enjoying my work. So, if you are excited about my art but can’t spend a lot or any money, please email me and we can work out different pricing/an order!

  • Coming soon! Almost all code will be published so that you can run the code and view the output space as they desire, in your own browser.

  • Occasional articles or ideas that I publish here, and deals + advance notification on new generative art.

  • Please reach out! On twitter or email or anywhere, I love to talk and work on generative art.

Luke Shannon

In visual art, I am interested

  1. in tension of chance and intention,

  2. in confusing creator-curator-viewer relationships, and

  3. in complete and incomplete descriptions of phenomena.

I make generative art, where hyper-specific and syntactical code delineates an infinite space, and the chaos of chance fills it. You, the viewer, provide this chance. My work then exists by your viewing act, is unique to your viewing act, and never exists again. Any individual output shown in this portfolio is a single angle on a piece of infinity we can never wholly see.

For me, shaping such a space is the most complete way to describe the things I feel and see, because it seeks multiplicity and universality rather than individual manifestation.